{"id":941,"date":"2006-12-18T11:29:21","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T11:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/18\/know-your-science-labs\/"},"modified":"2006-12-18T11:29:21","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T11:29:21","slug":"know-your-science-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/18\/know-your-science-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Science Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently acquired some lab space that was previously occupied by a biologist, and will be offering part of it to whoever we hire for our job opening. The space will probably need some extensive remodeling, both because it hasn’t been touched in years, but also because it was set up for biology work.<\/p>\n

Thinking about the space, and what would be needed to make it useful for a physicist, led me to the following rule of thumb for identifying the type of science done in a lab:<\/p>\n

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If a room has more sinks than electrical outlets, it’s a biology lab.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure something similar could be done for most of the other lab sciences– if a room has more fume hoods than sinks, it’s a chemistry lab; if it’s got black carboard taped over all the windows, it’s a laser lab; if it has more Ethernet ports than lights, it’s a computer lab; etc.<\/p>\n

What’s a good rule of thumb for spotting a lab in your favorite (or least favorite) lab science?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently acquired some lab space that was previously occupied by a biologist, and will be offering part of it to whoever we hire for our job opening. The space will probably need some extensive remodeling, both because it hasn’t been touched in years, but also because it was set up for biology work. Thinking… Continue reading Know Your Science Labs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}